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one new to the collection, from Barrow Island, and six eggs 
from Freemantle, Australia, presented by Mr. B. H. Wood- 
ward : 59 birds from Borneo, presented by Mrs. Jameson : 
47 birds from British Central Africa, presented by Lieut.- 
Col. Manning : 31 birds from Somaliland, including the 
type of Pyrrhulauda harrisoni, presented by Mr. J. J. 
Harrison : 107 birds from Queensland, presented by Mr. H. 
C. Bobinson : 103 birds from San Paulo, S.E. Brazil, 
presented by Sir William Ingram, Bart. : 2 Grecian Long- 
tailed Tits [Acredula macedonica) , from Greece, presented 
by Capt. Farquhar, R.N. : 52 birds from Somaliland, pre- 
sented by H.H. the Gaikwar of Baroda : a nest and eggs, 
with parent^ birds, of the Tawny Owl (^Syrnium aluco) , from 
Somerset, presented by Mr. C. B. Horsburgh : the type- 
specimens of a new species of Babbling Thrush [Crateropus 
hindii), from British E. Africa, presented by Dr. S. L. Hinde : 
220 nests and eggs from Victoria, presented by the Govern- 
ment of Victoria : 52 birds from China, presented by Mr. C. 
W. Campbell : 54 birds from the Shan States, including the 
types of two new species, presented by Lieut. -Col. G. Rippon: 
7Q eggs from the White Nile, presented by Mr. B. M. 
Hawker : 393 birds from Somaliland and S. Abyssinia, 
including the types of three new species, presented by 
Mr. Alfred E. Pease: 81 birds from Deelfontein, Cape 
Colony, presented by Col. Sloggett : 20 birds from the 
Orange-River Colony, presented by Capt. G. E. H. Barrett- 
Hamilton : 26 birds from Argentina, presented by Mr. Col- 
lingwood Ingram : 63 birds, including examples of three 
species new to the collection and three eggs, from Shendi, 
Sudan, presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and Mr. A. 
F. R. Wollaston : 4 types of new species of birds from 
Equatorial Africa, presented by Mr. F. J. Jackson, C.B. : 
179 birds, including four types and six species new to the 
collection, from British East Africa, presented by Sir Harry 
Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. : 124 birds from New Zealand 
and the adjacent islands, including the type of a new 
Cormorant [Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi), presented by the Earl 
of Ranfurly : a specimen o£ the Caroline Crake [Porzana 
Carolina), from Tiree Island, presented by Mr. E. L. Phillips : 
